Reiki Hypnosis: Inspiration

Not so long ago, the earth’s shape was questioned. The common belief was that the earth was flat, but over time, and with great courage, this belief was proven wrong, and the rest is history. Could this be happening today too? Could we be playing a part in a gigantic evolutionary shift of consciousness to which our children’s children’s children…will read about us and say, “can you believe they ever thought that way!” Aren’t we amazed that those “others” ever thought the earth was flat?

Many of us who “do” reiki experience incredible results in our personal lives and in those we treat. We’re jumping up and down shouting “the earth is round!” But we live primarily in a world full of individuals who insist that the earth is flat, i.e. naysayers of a new viewpoint, that we are energy not just matter.

I was at my first football game, EVER, last week, and a RHAM player got hurt. I was told that this was his second injury in two weeks. I was inspired by this boy, and decided right then, that I would make it my life’s mission to make reiki so commonly accepted that all athletes, no matter what their age, will have reiki available to them before, during or after a game if they so choose. Why? Because it works!

If we are energetically strong, our bodies are well nourished, flexible, limber, and can respond to the stress and strain of the game, and of life. Sometimes we have energy blocks in the body often caused by emotional stress, old injuries, or trauma, which will cut off the energy flow. If there is a block in the energy system that part of the body is mal nourished energetically and injury is more likely. This is similar to squeezing a plastic straw while trying to sip up juice. You have to work hard to get a tiny bit of juice through the pinch of the straw, right? The body responds the same way.

Over the years I’ve had the privilege of working with many young athletes who’ve been injured. Many of them getting right back into the game after ten minutes or more of reiki. I’ve worked with kids who’ve had repeat injuries and after receiving reiki their lives were quite different and they were energetically strong.

One rainy, cold, dark, and windy evening I had a middle-age couple show up in my Mansfield office. The husband was dragged to my introduction to reiki by his wife and not happy about it, very skeptical to boot. I placed my hands on his shoulders for a few minutes and he states, “boy my knees are all tingly” and I responded “that’s usually an indication of an injury. Have you injured your knees?” He explained, “I played football in high school and had a few surgeries on both my knees.” I believe the reiki energy was healing his scar tissue. Imagine what his life would have been like if he had reiki available to him right after his surgery, or better yet, right after his initial injury.

Reiki isn’t a household word, yet. If you were curious about reiki, I would recommend you attend an introduction to reiki rather than just reading about it. Many of us began skeptical. I was and Charles Way, the Director of Player Development for the NY Giants, was doubtful, but we didn’t allow our uncertainty to get in the way of experiencing gains in our lives. At an introduction you’d have the opportunity to experience what reiki feels like, ask questions, and then decide for yourself, yea, or nay.

I sit with my coffee, watching my cats scratch, and I hear these words…

Be not afraid of the flea. It is ever so small, yet you make it ever so big, just like the ego. What is the fear? That the flea will wreak havoc on your home, that you will be over powered and inundated with these tiny creatures. It is the mind that is inundated with thoughts that is the challenge. The mind is the terrain of the ego, and it is inundated with thoughts, many not helpful or inspiring, yet you don’t flea bomb your mind. The flea stimulates motion and activity in the stagnant or the uninspired. The mind can do this too, it can stimulate activity, yet most of it of the itchy, reactive type, with little inspiration or good. The ego stimulates fear, as does the flea.

Step out of the fear and stand in the love. See the sameness between you and the flea. Understand that it too feels small, afraid, and hides, just like you. You hide in the fur of God, running from its touch. Be not afraid of the love of God. Let the love of God make you feel larger than life, unafraid, and free from the confines of fear. Come out, come out, wherever you are, and step into the light of day! And…in joy!

Have faith dear One, have faith…all is not lost. Step back a bit and look, step back a bit and see the bigger vision, step back a bit and be in the big picture, step back a bit and breathe.

Let us help you let go of the heartache, the fear and worry, let us help you see the beauty, the joy, and the wonder, let us help you move forward into the new life that beckons.

The ground feels wobbly, we know, but you will find your balance. You will not fall, keep your focus on the horizon, and move forward. Toddle, yes, but go, you will find your way. In truth, it is your thinking that is wobbly, the ground is solid, and the earth supports you well. Be not afraid step out…

For 20 years I’ve walked up the mountain on this day,
With enthusiasm
Excitement
Passion
Sorrow
Grief
Horror
And loneliness
How does one end a long marriage?
How do you let go…
Of the tradition
The habit
The commitment
The dream
The investment
What do I do on this day?
Work
Play
Celebrate
Mourn
How do I want this day to be?
Peaceful
Joyful
How do I want my life to be?
Passionate
Rich
So what do I do in this day…
I let go!
And…
Celebrate ME

Be at peace with the moment you are in. There is no mistake for your being there. The only mistake is forgetting to receive the gift of the moment. There is always a gift for you to receive however quite often it is fear that is obscuring the gift in its entirety. You are much bigger than you think. You have within you all the answers to all the problems you could possibly create for yourself. Do not forget for a moment that you have a hand in all that is occurring in your life, for you are the Master Creator with a grand vision. You have just forgotten the big picture and are merely looking at the creation through a pin hole - step back and look again.

Be not afraid of the power that you are…if you would pull yourself together you would find that you have all the power of the universe and more. You will remember the truth of your divinity – your oneness. If you’d recognize how easy it is to just sit quietly and pull all those parts of you that have scattered, like ants running for safety, you would do it. The first thing is to recognize that you are scattered, and not operating in the world wholely (holy). This feels a bit jittery, like an underlying nervous tension, usually felt just below the heart in the diaphragm. Most of you aren’t aware of this feeling. Breathe deeply, feel your inner body, breathe deeply down into your belly, relax, breathe deeply calling your self back home into ONE whole!

Be at peace with this moment, just this moment. Yes, easy to say, I know, but it is important to remember that in this moment you create your next. If you do not like this moment and resist you will not like the next moment and will resist as well. Before you know it you are resisting life itself.

Stretch and breathe…breathe and stretch. You will marvel at how much easier life is if you remember to breathe deep full breathes. The breath allows you to be limber like a cat so you can land on your feet in all circumstances. Stretch and breathe…breathe and stretch.

When the energy bursts forth from the seed it requires great force, yet it is the pull of the sun, and the draw from the earth that encourages the seed to break open its hard shell. You are seeds ready to bust out with new life and vitality. Try to remember this when you feel challenged and breathe and stretch so you can break open the hard shell that surrounds you. Within the seed is the blueprint to create the tree, and the fruit. As such, within you is the blueprint with the answers of how you can solve your current challenges. Stretch and breathe…breathe and stretch into the moment so you can find the answers you seek. They are within you but only you can retrieve them.

Be not afraid of the truth. As the truth is hidden to preserve your secrets, those indiscretions that are committed, you unfortunately begin hiding as well. You begin hiding your truth behind the illusion. You then live the illusion, as if it is the truth. You begin aligning with the illusion as truth, and you wonder why you are experiencing deception.

The solution is simple yet so challenging...just be true full...

Having coffee with Mary, as in Mother Mary, this is what she had to say:

Be at peace dear Ones. It is hard, yes we know, but it is important to be mindful and aware of where you’re going and where you want to finally end up. Many of you have lost track of your thinking. You are allowing your minds to drive your life’s vehicle and many of you feel lost and out of control. This is similar to allowing a toddler to drive the car while you sit in the passenger seat. This isn’t prudent. It causes accidents, pain, and suffering. Once your mind and attention is under your will you will begin to see the magic.

We would encourage you to just watch your thinking. Just for a day. Just for this ONE day, place a bit of your attention on your thoughts. You’ll see what wonderful creators you actually are once you are aware of the thought that has created your current reality. It is there and you will see this.

The New Kids on the Block!


"I remember what it was like to be home. It was
a lot different than here. Everything was beautiful.
I loved everyone and they loved me back equally.
How come it doesn’t feel like that here?"
Andrew, age 4
(from The Children of Now)

“And the children shall lead us” isn’t that what the Bible has told us for ages? Can it be possible that this is actually what is happening in our world today? But how can we hear the children if we don’t know how to listen? How can we guide our children if we don’t know who we’re raising?

Perhaps your life is like mine. Frequently in my parenting, I felt like I was trying to navigate a clipper ship around Cape Horn with two conflicting paradigms continuously colliding, ya know what I mean? It didn’t seem so difficult when the sun was out but once the rain, wind, and waves hit, panic and overwhelm set in too. In raising my kids, most of what I believed to be true, my indoctrination, no longer fit in with my mothering. The books all seemed out-of-date, the “experts” often fell short in their advice, and little by little the truth of my children’s extraordinariness began to be revealed and my worldview changed forever.

The “new kids on the block” also known as the “Children of Now” are highly evolved beings with exceptional gifts. They’re trying to wake us up to the truth of whom we are by stretching us in our thinking, expanding our viewpoint, and urging us inch by inch to step out of fear and stand in love. Not always an easy feat however and many of these children are exhausted and frustrated.

“The New Kids on the Block” are highly sensitive, and intuitive. What they hear is not what they feel, and they can detect deception. If you’re like me, I had the idea that what was in my head was only known to me, and…I hate to admit this, I had so little control of my mind that I didn’t even know all the thoughts, many of them negative, in my own head. We are amplifying like radio antennas and these children are receivers. I started to wake up when, at three years old, my daughter told me, “I know when you think I’m annoying and don’t want me around.” Ut oh!

We can no longer deny that there is more to life than meets the eye. “Seeing is believing” is passé and we must understand that believing is seeing. Currently we don’t have the technology to measure the subtle fields of energy or the high frequency biophysical energy fields that these new Children carry. Today, from a scientific or medical standpoint, if it can’t be quantified then it must not exist, right? But this is not the truth, and it’s time to trust our hearts and not our heads.

Metaphysics is merely just that, a study of everything outside of what science can measure. Many people get freaked out about this subject, but if you’re a parent, caregiver, teacher, or work closely with children in anyway, I would urge you to read, Dr. Meg Blackburn Losey’s book, “The Children of Now”. This book will help you understand that we can’t insist these kids fit into the tiny little boxes we’re so comfortable in. Maybe you’re no longer comfortable trying to fit in, yearning to be real and authentic yourself, if so, just stretch and breath into the adventure of a lifetime! I promise you, you won’t be sorry.

Free Will
Eaglemoon Raes

I walk between
The worlds
I dance
I shake
I rattle
I merge with the rhythms of the Earth
I resonate
I expand
I intuit
I merge with the rhythms of the Universe
A tree of life
with roots firmly planted
In the rich moist soil of my mother’s womb
Branches reaching upward toward my father’s loving embrace
Content in Who I Am
At peace with the energies which move through me
Accepting free will,
Re-joy-fully,
As the best birth day present.

© Copyrighted by Eaglemoon Raes 2001

"You already know the end of the story, so try to enjoy the pages from the book of your life. Try not to read too far ahead, only one page a day, and each step is a word and each breath a letter. Enjoy it. It will all make sense one day, but for now, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, keep taking one breath at a time, and feel the love that surrounds you. You will find peace."

There is good in everything even that fly that you see flying around! Do not judge and rate the value of something based on the purpose it has in life. You must understand that all life has a purpose and all life is worthy, regardless of its size and standing.

How you struggle! You're not able to see your blessings through your worry. You would do well to sit in nature surrounded by all the beauty, go up to the "church" and you will find peace, you will find directions and you will see the light. You're not seeing the direction, or the intention of your being on Earth. You're clouded with Shoulds, and Shouldn'ts, Wouldn't, and Couldn'ts, and you're not seeing the path of ease. Your not seeing the liberation of each move you make. You're clouded with fear, worry and limitations. You feel so tied up, you feel bound, you feel imprisoned, but you have the key to the cell. You don't feel the key in your own hand, feel how cold and heavy it is? Do you know what the key is? Live, Love, and Laugh! Find the humor, find the intentions, and Love as you've never loved before. You feel closed up, you feel trapped, you feel so burdened but you can leave these burdens behind, live on the peak, jump from peak to peak. If you sit in the quiet you will see how easy life is, if you'd sit in the quiet you will see the light. If you sit in the quiet you will see the wisdom of your ways. You would do well to sit or go someplace alone. You need to sort out and "discreate" all that you don't want in life, you believe if you just had a burst of energy you would just jump out of the pit, you can ask for a hand, you know, you don't need to make the climb alone. We would gladly take your hand, just ask!

This morning I woke up with such enthusiasm. I haven’t been excited to wake up in years. I have felt lost and confused for so long, that I felt exhausted even before my feet hit the carpet to begin my day. What changed? Let me try to explain…

From my blog entry from yesterday ~ Groundhog’s Day ~ I quote “Many of us are hiding away like the groundhog in a darkened cave. Hiding our full potential from ourselves and from the world. Afraid of our own shadow, we hide away in the dark, so we can no longer see it. What would happen if we recognize that our shadow is merely a reflection of our own self-illusion as we stand in the light of love?” Ummm

What I realized this morning was that I actually lived with my Shadow Self. Imagine that? Most of us live with our Shadows. Our shadow is whoever pushes our buttons the quickest, whoever we run away from, whoever we criticize, blame, and judge, whoever makes us squirm in their presence. When we stop and face our shadow and recognize it as a “reflection of our own self-illusion as we stand in the light of love” we can let it go, and as we let it go, we let ourselves go and all that is left is love…ummm!

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This message came to me on 2/2/99 and I wanted to share it today…

“Now what I would like to speak to you about is to allow your children to be. To teach them, and this isn’t just your children, but all children, to BE. They have so much inner wisdom, but they’re not given the chance to use it. They’re always being told to do this, to do that, they’re being shuffled here, and shuffled there. They’re not given adequate time for reflections, listening within. We urge you to slow down, and bring your children to your side, sit in the quiet with them, breath with them, embrace them, just sit in the quiet. Listen to the birds, listen to beautiful music. It doesn’t have to be long, but what is required is to synchronize your breathing. This is a very powerful thing to do, when you sit and read to your children, especially at bedtime. You’re able to breathe at the same rate, your breathing is in harmony. You can sit in the quiet when a child is sad, angry, and disappointed and just breath, your breathing will soon be in harmony. The problem right now is that so many of you are in a hurry, you’re not valuing the simple life empowering aspects of your day. If you can’t see the results, if you can’t hold it in your hand, then it isn’t of value, but you will see great results if you try this. Read to your children. Sit down, don’t be in such a rush, nothing is as important than sitting with the children, all else can wait. When they are older make a pot of tea and sit at the table, make time for quiet activities with your children.

Chances are your children are already guiding you in this department. You may want to fill them up with activities but they just keep saying no, you may think they have no interests, but they’re wanting you to come home again. BE quiet, BE home, BE quiet, BE in the rhythm with the day, with nature, with life. They don’t need to fill their days up with activities, they’re happy. WE ARE COMPLETE”

Come out! Come out! Wherever you are, come out, come out and play!

Oddly, Groundhog Day is becoming one of my favorite holidays and this is why…

Many of us are hiding away like the groundhog in a darkened cave. Hiding our full potential from ourselves and from the world. Afraid of our own shadow, we hide away in the dark, so we can no longer see it. What would happen if we recognize that our shadow is merely a reflection of our own self-illusion as we stand in the light of love?

Why do many of us choose fear over love? Could it be to hide our shadow? Why are we so afraid of being loved, or loving? Why do we make it so difficult? Why do we put so many conditions on love? Why are we so hard on ourselves? Aren’t we loved? Don’t we come from love? Won’t we return to love? Isn’t love all there is?

I find it interesting that Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day exist side by side of each other? Today is Groundhog Day, but all around me I see hearts, urging me to share my love, to be an expression of love, and to allow love. I am being encouraged to step out of fear and stand in love and when I do I might see a shadow, and my natural tendency would be to retreat to the cave believing that I’m not good enough to be loved, or I can recognize that the shadow is merely a reflection of my own self-illusion.
If I retreat back into the cave, like the groundhog, I might experience six more weeks of winter and the feeling of winter might actually extend throughout my lifetime or I can stand in the light of love, and enjoy the warmth like that of the sun, helping me grow vibrant and alive, happy and free.

So…I remind you on this wonderful Groundhog Day to
come out, come out, wherever you are, come out, come out, and play!

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Let it all Out

Dear child,

Let it all out-
Move – sing – dance – shout
Allow it all to flow.
Colors!
Light!
Sound!
Rhythm!
Waves and waves of movement
Ride the waves,
Flow with the rapids
Merge with the particles of water.
Resist not, for in the resisting is the pain.
Allow the body to slowly stretch
into flexibility
limberness
Reach
Stretch
Fluidity in motion.
Bend
And bridge the gap between Souls
Reach out
Touch
Feel all beings on the earth
Embrace
And sob for lack of memory.
Allow the children to touch your heart
For when you do
You will remember more and more of who you are.
Have faith in the love and the light.

© Copyrighted by Eaglemoon Raes 2002

Are You Home sick?



When we first went to Washington I wanted to take my kids to the Olympic Peninsula, to the rainforest. When we got to the west side of the mountain, between the Pacific Ocean and the mountain, I became very claustrophobic. I was surprised by my response; trouble breathing, anxious, and jittery. When we finally drove south, beyond the mountain, I thought, “thank God, now we can go home”. But you see “home” was in Connecticut, even though I was staying at my sister and brother-in-law’s and had been there for only 2 days before setting out for this little adventure their home had become my known – i.e. home. I realized I was homesick.

My spirit guide explained to me that being “homesick” is a common unconscious feeling that many hold. Not necessarily homesick for a physical dwelling but for their spiritual home, heaven, the light, whatever their idea of this known location of love, comfort, and peace. I understood that many people make choices that aren’t necessarily life enhancing perhaps to hasten their time on earth. This isn’t a conscious action, of course, but my hunch is that most addictions stem from this unconscious desire to “go home”, “to blow Dodge”, “to get the heck out of here”…

Remember how you felt at summer camp? It was fun and all, but in the background of those quiet moments was a longing to be back in the comfort of the familiar. As much as many of us have the desire to live, to be alive, we also have the resistance to living, to truly being alive too.

Over the years I’ve been exploring this idea with my clients. Once I share my own story, my clients are ready and able to admit their own longing to go home. Through EFT and exploring the desire and the resistance to being alive, being in a body, etc my clients have been able to make tremendous change in their lives. Once we admit we’re homesick, once we’re aware of it, the rest is cake.

My journey started at a fork in the road between motherhood and career woman. At the time, I believed somebody else was pulling my puppet strings and chose the twisting and turning muddy road toward Mom-dom for me. Now, after several years of scraping mud off my boots, I realized it was I who chose the often rocky, steep climb home to motherhood. It was the whole I, not just this physical mass of energy, but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual ME, that I’ve come to love and embrace. Looking back down the long winding road I can see that I was never alone but was expertly guided along the trail, with love and appreciation, by a force greater than myself to my own awakening.

Years ago, when I first started hanging out with my husband, he was building a deck on the house he rented. One day I was helping him nail down the decking and a quick vision came to me that we would marry and build a house together. “Yeah, right”, I thought, “I’m not going to marry him. He’s a geek.” I brushed this notion aside and forgot about it for years.

One day, five years later, while nailing plywood to what would someday be my kitchen floor I remembered my vision of long ago. A strange but peaceful feeling came over me. A knowing that all was well and that I was in the right place with the right person. It was like a check in point to make sure everyone was present and accounted for before the trek could begin.

Before my first pregnancy I was in a constant state of struggle. I was full of anger, resentment, and played the role of victim expertly. I spent years blanketing my feelings and emotions with alchohal. Once I became pregnant and chose to stop drinking my life began to unfold, my inner being could finally get through to me and my journey began. Let me tell you though, I didn’t always go willingly!

Over the years I’ve learned that my 3 children had important life lessons to teach me, as do all of our children. These are some they’ve taught me…

Live

My son taught me about living passionately. I discovered that if people were resisting being fully alive they had difficulty being with him. He loved to experience everything. How far could he climb, what is over that hill, and around that corner, where are the limits and the breaking points of every object in the house, and what would happen if I threw this at that? He was curious and wanted to figure out his world, and he did it with great delight.

Each morning I would get him out of his crib he would say, “Mommy isn’t it a beautiful day.” He spoke early and could tell you whole stories at 20 months old. One day it was raining, and he said with that ever so sweet smile, “Mommy, isn’t it a beautiful day?” and in my negative cranky mood, I replied, “beautiful day? No it’s raining.” This is a “mommy moment” I deeply regret because he never asked me again after that. And he remembered it too! When he was older I asked him where the boy was who would ask every morning, “Mommy, isn’t it a beautiful day?”

He said, “Do you know why I stopped?”

“Why?”

“Because one morning you told me it wasn’t a beautiful day, it was raining.”

Yikes!

When he was four years old I witnessed him pulling his two-wheeler up on to the platform of our homemade slide. The ladder was made from 2 X 4s at about a 45-degree angle to the platform. He decided to ride down the ladder. Now, I just listened to a tape by Abraham Hicks that explained that kids are capable of doing amazing things if the mom isn’t in the way saying “Johnny you get down from there, you’re going to fall and break your neck.” I knew I could either run outside and instill fear in him, “what are you nuts you could fall and break your neck”, or watch. It wasn’t easy, but I decided to stay inside and watch. Not only did he ride down the ladder and land it, but he then rode down the slide and landed that too!

He’s sixteen now and rides motor-cross. He flies through the air at great speeds with great height. He’s active and alive. He’s an incredible athlete. And a joy to watch live! He’s been one of my greatest teachers, teaching me more than he could ever know, not all of it pleasant, but definitely worthwhile!

Love

My daughter, my first-born, taught me about love. Her heart is huge. She’s generous, kind and compassionate. She taught me about unconditional love.

When she was young everybody loved being with her. She made everybody, and I mean everybody, feel good. She was loving, open hearted, non-judgmental and gentle. Not many people resist love, especially from a child, so she was always held, embraced, nurtured and nourished.

When she was an infant she could see right into your soul. Many people experienced this. Even people who weren’t “new agey” or spiritual would express, “Look at her eyes, I feel like she’s looking right into my soul”!

I’m going to sound like a horrible mom, but hear me out. When she was a baby I didn’t want to have a thumb-sucking child. In my family, this was a huge deal. My cousins had prongs put into their mouths to stop them from sucking their thumbs. I sucked my fingers until I was way too old by many standards, seventeen! So I had some judgment on this subject. We decided to give her a “tooti” (pacifier) and at 4 she gave it up! Boy was I relieved…until she began sucking her thumb at five!

Another issue I resisted was having an over weight child. I didn’t want her ridiculed and quite frankly, I didn’t want people to think I was a bad mom. Well, for a while when she was young she became overweight. You see, this was part of my unconditional love lesson. Imagine that somebody loves you so much (on a soul level) that they are willing to create life situations that would help you learn and grow even if they might be uncomfortable along the way. In my heart I know that my daughter was supporting me in my journey by teaching me to surrender judgment and to just love and appreciate life as it is.


Laugh

My final child has taught me about laughter; taking life lightly and letting go of the seriousness of living. I’m still working on this one, but am moving forward nonetheless.

You see, seriousness is what glues us to life struggle. I was confused between living a sacred life and a serious one. A part of me thought that being spiritual and living a spiritual life was serious business but I’ve finally come to understand that being Source is de-light-ful ~ full of light. When we delight in life we let go of resistance and we live lightly appreciating all that is as it is without judgment. Appreciation is the essence that allows us to fully experience and move through life with ease.

I was also confusing Power versus Force. Power is our inner essence; love, joy, peace, harmony, balance, rhythm and much much more. It is living as Source, Creator of it all. Force, for me, is living from the viewpoint of the ego (fear), forcing life to happen according to my limited perspective. I was fighting with life, beating myself up, resisting life as it was, and being mad that things weren’t going my way. I was behaving like a Forty-five-year-old two-year-old, having one temper tantrum after another. Life for me was exhausting not enlivening.

I’ve resisted laughter. When I was growing up, I was often laughed at. Sarcasm wasn’t fun. My cousins and siblings were brutal. At family gatherings they would select a sacrificial lamb then gang up on and pick them apart. I learned quickly to “laugh at or be laughed at”. I didn’t feel good wherever I sat, in the outer circle laughing, or in the inner circle cringing all alone. I decided to laugh at myself, knock myself down, before anybody else could do it for me. Where was the joy in the laughter?

My husband was a different story. He would laugh at my foibles but I could feel his appreciation for me. I didn’t become self-conscious or cringe. Over time, I learned to laugh at myself without judgment, or ridicule but with enjoyment.

So…now what would I say about laughter? What comes to mind is the expression, “I laugh in the face of danger”. (Who said this?) When we laugh in the face of danger, we are delighting in life, recognizing and completely trusting that all is truly well regardless of what we are facing. It’s part of the Cosmic Roller Coaster.

Do you like roller coasters? I love them! On my forty-fourth birthday I went on the Mind Eraser, a roller coaster that scared me silly seven years ago. I decided to go it alone and hopped on the ride. The ride ended thirty-four seconds later. I thought, “You can’t be serious! My life is more thrilling than this!”

So…I laugh in the face of danger, eventually!

Years ago, I was on a cross-country trip and my RV wouldn’t start on the day we were heading home. I had to call AAA for help. I prayed for the perfect person to come help me and this is what happed…the Cliff note verson…

The perfect tow guy said, “It’s your Neutral Safety Switch, mam. It’s reading that you’re in drive rather than in park so it won’t start but once you put it in to neutral you’ll be all set.”

Who would have imagined. My neutral safety switch!

As I was driving toward US 70 I thought, “What would I need to learn from this.”

My spirit guide explained, “As much as you want to go home you equally have as much resistance.”

To which I responded, “you’re nuts why wouldn’t I want to go home?”

“Think about it.”

So I did, and spirit was right, I did have resistance. Spirit explained, “as long as you have desire, you equally have as much resistance, unless you’re in neutral you will never move forward.” As I heard these words in my head, I was turning onto US70 east, and in front of me was a yellow, diamond sign that said, “Eagle’s on the Road”. Have you ever seen a sign like this? Sure enough, I was on the road. And, the wild ride home was about to get wilder! Every time I felt fear or resistance I would step into neutral and move forward.

Over the years I’ve been exploring this idea with my clients. Once I share my own story, my clients are ready and able to step into neutral. Through EFT and exploring the desire and the resistance to being alive, being in a body, etc my clients have been able to make tremendous change in their lives. For a diagram of the tapping points please go to www.emofree.com
“Stepping into Neutral” can be applied to any situation. Lets use Success as an example.

Tap on Karate Chop and say:

Even though I don’t feel successful I accept who I am.
Even thought I don’t believe I’m successful, I am choosing to have fun succeeding.
Even though there’s a part of me that wants to succeed, there’s a part of me that doesn’t, and I’m in conflict. I am choosing to resolve my conflict so I can step into neutral moving into a new life full of success and enjoyment.

I’m a loser (eyebrow)
No, I’m not! (side of eye)
Yes, I am (under eye)
I can’t do any thing right (under nose)
Yes I can (chin)
I can’t believe I’m such an idiot (collar bone)
If only I had listened to ________ (under arm)
But if I listened to ME and everything is all right (top of head)

Tap in the positive:

I have all the attributes of success within ME (eyebrow)
I can do it if I decide to (side of eye)
My attention is focused on my goal (under eye)
I am confident in my ability to move forward (under nose)
I do it with ease (chin)
Life is a fun and exciting adventure (under arm)
I allow myself to appreciate life and to fully enjoy it (top of head)

I found this poem hidden in my computer years after it was written. I remember this dark night so well...perhaps you have felt this way at one point.

A Slow Death
By
Eaglemoon Raes

I lie in the dark of early morning
Husband snoring deeply beside me
Heavy in his sleep
I toss about uncertain of my place in the world
Unclear of the purpose of my existence
Tears flow on to my pillow
I am dying here
I can feel worms eating my flesh
Decomposing the parts of me that have died long ago
A walking corpse I’ve been
There is nothing left of me
I’ve withered
My will to live is gone
The mortgage, the house, the bills, the lives of my children
Have all had more meaning than my life
How did I get here?
Surrounded by resentment
Where is the love?
Where is the life?
Where is the laughter?
I cannot continue
I surrender
White flags whipping in the breeze
The baby cries
Oh God, I have to wake up
I rise
“I am here for you” I feel her say
“I am here for you too”
We nurse
My heart opens
Oh, I see
Here is the love
Here is the life
Here is the laughter…

My son was trying to get a handle on life and death one day and he said to me, “So… life if kinda like a vacation, when it’s all over you go home.” I thought this was brilliant. I decided this would be my new mantra. If I get stressed I just say to myself, “Wait a minute! I’m on vacation. Why am I getting so worked up”?

What is in the word “Laugh”?
by Eaglemoon Raes

Joy! Fun!
To laugh is to live in joy
To laugh is to bring love into your life
To laugh is to connect with the flow
Of pure positive energy
The unconditional flow of love energy
The flow of universal life force.
Find joy,
Laugh, and you will always be connected
To the source of love.
Laugh and you will find all that you want in life
Laugh and you will attract all that is good
Laugh and you will find peace
Laugh and you will allow
More laughter
More goodness
More joy
More joyous people
More of what you want
into your life.
You will be connected with all that is good in the world.
You will have an unlimited flow of love into your life
You will be able to channel greater amounts of love
To all around you.
You will find more health
You will find greater joy
You will find such happiness that you couldn’t even imagine
You will find such joy …
such appreciation …
for All That Is.

© 1998 Eaglemoon Raes

What is in the word “Love”?
by Eaglemoon Raes

Love is the most powerful energy of the Universe.
When we love somebody,
truly love them
without imposing our judgments
or certain conditions,
if we truly love somebody…
We set them free.
We set them free to live life.
We set them free to love.
We set them free to laugh with such joy.
We set them free to really experience life to the fullest,
With security
With strong self esteem
With a sense of Self.

© 1998 Eaglemoon Raes